Hobby Lobby District Manager: we're open until the National Guard physically shuts us down

[essentialsaltes]

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• In an internal Hobby Lobby memo obtained by Business Insider, the company told managers that sick employees must use personal paid time off and vacation pay or take an “unpaid leave of absence until further notice.”
• In the case of mandated store closures, the memo said employees will be eligible for emergency pay only after paid time off and vacation days have been depleted, at which point they will receive 75% of their regular rate of pay based on an average of shifts from the previous six weeks.
• “The district manager has said that our stores will remain open until the National Guard comes in and physically shuts the buildings down,” a Hobby Lobby manager told Business Insider.

 

[Sabertooth]

"You can close my doors when you pry them from my cold, dead hands...!"

 

[pitabread]

I don't know what Hobby Lobby is, but I hate it already.

 

[Speedwell]

I don't know what Hobby Lobby is, but I hate it already.

It's a chain of hobby and craft supply stores. It's the same outfit that went to court over the Obamacare requirement that employee health insurance plans pay for birth control.

 

[pitabread]

It's a chain of hobby and craft supply stores. It's the same outfit that went to court over the Obamacare requirement that employee health insurance plans pay for birth control.

Starting to sound like a chain of evil hobby and craft supply stores.

 

[Speedwell]

Starting to sound like a chain of evil hobby and craft supply stores.

Unfortunately, it's beginning to sound like the Corona virus is becoming another hot-button political issue for the Christian Right.

 

[Tanj]

"You can close my doors when you pry them from my cold, dead hands...!"

so in 2-3 weeks then.

 

[Tinker Grey]

Unfortunately, it's beginning to sound like the Corona virus is becoming another hot-button political issue for the Christian Right.

The Christian Right might solve the separation of church and state for us.

 

[wing2000]

It's a chain of hobby and craft supply stores. It's the same outfit that went to court over the Obamacare requirement that employee health insurance plans pay for birth control.

Didn't you know a craft and hobby store is an "essential business" during a pandemic?

 

[durangodawood]

Didn't you know a craft and hobby store is an "essential business" during a pandemic?

I kind of agree. Just like the Cannabis shops in CO. Stay at home "activity" providers.

 

[loveofourlord]

I kind of agree. Just like the Cannabis shops in CO. Stay at home "activity" providers.

don't forget gamestop!!! even though 90% of what they sell now can be bought digitally!

 

[iluvatar5150]

If anybody wants an interesting, refreshing counterpoint to the Hobby Lobby story, here's a story about how HEB, a regional grocery chain in Texas, has been developing their disaster response plans and infrastructure for several years:

Inside the Story of How H-E-B Planned for the Pandemic

 

[JCFantasy23]

Ugh, not having the employees backs at all. Typical greedy corporation mentality.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

don't forget gamestop!!! even though 90% of what they sell now can be bought digitally!

Gamestop shut down Sunday…

 

[loveofourlord]

Gamestop shut down Sunday…

yeah only because their permits were revoked in california and were probably threatened in other places.

 

[CyberPaladin]

don't forget gamestop!!! even though 90% of what they sell now can be bought digitally!

It was essential to GameStop to not have to mail those preorder copies of Doom Eternal and Animal Crossing people were suppose to be picking up in store. Afterall UPS is expensive and they weren't doing well before this.

 

[Aryeh Jay]

Hey, Hobby Lobby has to pay for those fake Dead Sea scrolls they bought somehow.

 

[variant]

Nm I'm not sure.

 

[Michie]

Did Hobby Lobby letter really say God told company to keep stores open during virus crisis? — GetReligion

 

[loveofourlord]

Did Hobby Lobby letter really say God told company to keep stores open during virus crisis? — GetReligion

Good to know might be wrong, unfortunetly the other 3-4 isn't wrong, there have been quiet a few churches, and people on these forums that seem to think god wants them to go to church or to do things that put people at risk.